Mask "idangani" · D. R. Congo, Salampasu · ID: 3034969
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Provenance
Peter Loebarth, Hameln, GermanySize
H: 39 cm
H: 15.4 inch
Description
raffia, plant fibres, plant fibre netting, protruding forehead and fleshy nose upholstered with wooden chips, beard of suspending fibres, crowned by a pointed headgear, min. dam., socle;
this mask type was probably used by the “idangani” society.
The object Mask “idangani” with the object ID 3034969 was last part of the auction 73rd tribal art auction at May 25, 2013 on Zemanek-Münster Auction house and had the lot number 411.
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Comparing literature
Grootaers, J.-L., Eisenburger, I. (ed.), Forms of Wonderment, Vol. II, 2002, p. 547, ill. 651